| 章 |
| 14:1 |
"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
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| 14:2 |
He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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| 14:3 |
Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment?
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| 14:4 |
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
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| 14:5 |
Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
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| 14:6 |
So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.
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| 14:7 |
"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
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| 14:8 |
Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
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| 14:9 |
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
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| 14:10 |
But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
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| 14:11 |
As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
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| 14:12 |
so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
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| 14:13 |
"If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
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| 14:14 |
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
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| 14:15 |
You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
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| 14:16 |
Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
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| 14:17 |
My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
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| 14:18 |
"But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
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| 14:19 |
as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.
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| 14:20 |
You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away.
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| 14:21 |
If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
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| 14:22 |
He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself."
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